German Greens breathing down Merkel's neck in poll
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Germany’s ecologist Greens, fresh from a second-place result in May’s European Parliament elections, hit a record level in a poll published on Thursday which put them just one percentage point behind Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives.